We are what we are !!

  "Buddha always called his way to salvation the 'Aryan Path'. "- says Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in Discovery Of India , while writing about "What is Hindusism"(Page 74). If Buddha had held "Aryan" which means Noble in Sanskrit, in such a high esteem, will it pass muster if anybody says Aryan Invasion Theory as being correct or calls Aryans Invaders of Dravidian India. All these Western theories(AIT) are nothing short of a great conspiracy who termed Aryans , a race. Those of us who hold Buddha as a fighter against Brahminical hegemony tends to unnaturally convert him as a crusader against Vedas and Vedantas. I would like to give few counterpoints and leave the rest to the best judgment of the readers of this post: 1)Buddha accepted Kapila's Sankhya Yoga's principles of this metaphysical arrangement of the world including the universe but without accepting its Prakriti and Purusha connections, as they are not easily verifiable. Kapila rishi,...